[Ns-developers] 802.11 CW growth

[Mathieu Lacage]

reporting a bug with a patch in bugzilla would be great :)

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:14 +0100, Timo Bingmann wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> >From dcf-manager.cc:
> void 
> DcfState::UpdateFailedCw (void)
> {
>   uint32_t cw = m_cw;
>   cw *= 2;
>   cw = std::min (m_cwMax, cw);
>   m_cw = cw;
> }
> 
> Am I mistaken or is there a +1 missing here?
> I believe newCW = min(maxCW, 2 * (oldCW + 1) - 1)
> = min(maxCW, 2 * oldCW + 1)
> 
> The usual CW sequence should be 7, 15, 31, 63, ...
> 
> Greetings
> Timo
>